Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030377AbWCTVYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:24:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030378AbWCTVYl (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:24:41 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:61368 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030370AbWCTVYk (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:24:40 -0500 Message-ID: <441F1D90.4080201@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:24:32 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Benedict Glaw CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , klibc@zytor.com, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Merge strategy for klibc References: <441F0859.2010703@zytor.com> <20060320201905.GI20746@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20060320201905.GI20746@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 20 Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > I haven't yet looked at your code, but what actually needs to be done? > Defining syscall macros? > > I'd probably give it a try for VAX. > Each architecture needs an assembly stub generator for most syscalls, a crt0.S, plus adjustments for which syscalls are "special" (as in special ed) on that architecture. There are also a couple of header files which need per-architecture configuration information. All in all it is usually a few hours worth of work, no more. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/